So my Firepower’s playfield is, to use a technical term, fucking nasty. In addition to general dirt and grime there were these small white circles of what I assume are some kind of mold. Most people’s go-to cleaner for everyday polishing and removing fine or heavy scratches is Novus. But for just getting rid of […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Thwarted!
Today’s plan was to put the legs on Firepower and start cleaning it in earnest. The previous owner had stripped the threads on the front leg brackets. They were total garbage, and had to be removed. I tried to be fancy and replace them with some more solid brackets in a newer style. Some folks […]
I just started reading The Inner Game of…
I just started reading The Inner Game of Tennis (https://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Tennis-Classic-Performance/dp/0679778314) this morning. Even like five pages in, I can already see how it might help my pinball game. I tend to talk to myself a lot while I play, and the talk is usually along the lines of “stupid! you fucking moron, why did you […]
Much like web dev the first question you…
Much like web dev, the first question you have to answer when writing custom pinball software is “Which platform are you going to use?” The Mission Pinball Framework seems like it’s had the most work, but it also runs at a pretty high level of abstraction. This all means it’s probably the fastest way to […]
Let’s do this
Welcome to livecat.ch. I’ve been playing pinball competitively since 2015. I’ll write a series of posts later about my origins in pinball, what led me to competitive play, and what keeps me playing. For now, though, I just wanted to throw up a quick post explaining why I created this site, and what I plan […]